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Farmers: Rural Areas

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 906500, tabled on 19 September 2023

Question

Jamie Stone
Liberal Democrat
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support rural farmers.

Answer

Mark Spencer
Conservative
Sherwood
Commons

Answered on

19 October 2023

We are backing British farmers with £3.7bn of investment per year, including £620m per year for Scotland. This is ringfenced UK Government funding for farming to support profitable and sustainable food production and environmental and animal welfare outcomes.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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